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Eliza "Virginia" Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.
Birth Name
Eliza Virginia Capers
Born
Tuesday, 22 September 1925
Died
Thursday, 06 May 2004
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | Self | 2004 |
Taking Back Our Town | 2001 | |
For Love of Olivia | Ida Mae Boudreau | 2001 |
Commitments | 2001 | |
The District | Crazy Mary | 2000 |
Popular | Nurse Pittman | 1999 |
Snoops | Mrs. Garrett | 1999 |
Bad City Blues | Mrs. Green | 1999 |
The Hughleys | M'Dear | 1998 |
For Your Love | Cornelia | 1998 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | Self | 2004 |
Taking Back Our Town | 2001 | |
For Love of Olivia | Ida Mae Boudreau | 2001 |
Commitments | 2001 | |
The District | Crazy Mary | 2000 |
Popular | Nurse Pittman | 1999 |
Snoops | Mrs. Garrett | 1999 |
Bad City Blues | Mrs. Green | 1999 |
The Hughleys | M'Dear | 1998 |
For Your Love | Cornelia | 1998 |
The Practice | Virginia Reynolds | 1997 |
Sunsplit | 1997 | |
The Pretender | Mr. Herbert's Former Assistant | 1996 |
Raven Hawk | Dr. Helen Harris | 1996 |
Poltergeist: The Legacy | Grandma Rose | 1996 |
Courthouse | Eddie's Mother | 1995 |
Truman | Elizabeth Moore | 1995 |
Madman of the People | Clara | 1994 |
ER | Mrs. Wilson | 1994 |
Party of Five | Nana | 1994 |
Beethoven's 2nd | Miss Linda Anderson | 1993 |
What's Love Got to Do with It | Choir Mistress | 1993 |
Picket Fences | Judge Campbell | 1992 |
Batman: The Animated Series | Judge | 1992 |
Original Intent | Lily Reid | 1992 |
The Commish | Wilma Sands | 1991 |
Donor | Mrs. Mantley | 1990 |
Good Grief | Judge Connie | 1990 |
Evening Shade | Francis Blue | 1990 |
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Kate Langston | 1990 |
Gabriel's Fire | Annie | 1990 |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Hattie Banks | 1990 |
Pacific Palisades | Shirley | 1990 |
Booker | Ivy Seaton | 1989 |
Unsub | Glenona | 1989 |
Backfire | Maxine | 1987 |
Frank's Place | Bertha Griffin-Lamour | 1987 |
Married... with Children | Mourner #2 | 1987 |
Off the Mark | Velma | 1987 |
The George McKenna Story | Margaret Wright | 1986 |
Downtown | Delia Bonner | 1986 |
Starman | Nurse Corona | 1986 |
Howard the Duck | Cora Mae, Secretary | 1986 |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Florence Sparrow | 1986 |
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Emma Ray | 1986 |
227 | Aunt Gwendolyn | 1985 |
The Golden Girls | Greta Wagner | 1985 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ruth | 1985 |
Teachers | Landlady | 1984 |
Murder, She Wrote | Margo Webster | 1984 |
Highway to Heaven | Miss Hendrickson | 1984 |
Amanda's | Mrs. Wilson | 1983 |
The Toy | Ruby Simpson | 1982 |
St. Elsewhere | Admit Clerk | 1982 |
Star of the Family | Alberta | 1982 |
Romance Theatre | Mama | 1982 |
Dynasty | Aunt Bessie | 1981 |
White Mama | Gorilla Sydney | 1980 |
Knots Landing | Mrs. Adele Carter | 1979 |
The North Avenue Irregulars | Cleo | 1979 |
Mork & Mindy | Nurse Tula | 1978 |
Quincy M.E. | Allison's Neighbor / Dainty June / Emily Barlow | 1976 |
Jigsaw John | Leona | 1976 |
Dinah! | Self | 1974 |
Five on the Black Hand Side | Ruby | 1973 |
The World's Greatest Athlete | Native Woman | 1973 |
Trouble Man | Macy | 1972 |
Lady Sings the Blues | Mama Holiday | 1972 |
ABC Afterschool Specials | Judge Atherton | 1972 |
The Waltons | Vesper Oakes | 1972 |
The Rookies | Mrs. Gibson / Mrs. Culpepper | 1972 |
The Late Liz | Martha | 1971 |
Big Jake | Delilah | 1971 |
Support Your Local Gunfighter | Effie | 1971 |
Longstreet | Nurse | 1971 |
The Great White Hope | Sister Pearl | 1970 |
Norwood | Ernestine | 1970 |
There Was a Crooked Man... | Cook | 1970 |
Bracken's World | Mrs. Andrews | 1969 |
The Lost Man | Theresa | 1969 |
Marcus Welby, M.D. | Aunt Cass | 1969 |
Julia | Mrs. Deering / Mrs. Gibson | 1968 |
Mannix | Mrs. Frost / Pearl | 1967 |
Judd for the Defense | Millie Enfield | 1967 |
The Ride to Hangman's Tree | Teresa Moreno | 1967 |
Dragnet 1967 | Mrs. Florence Bell | 1967 |
Daniel Boone | Elsie | 1964 |
Breaking Point | Esther | 1963 |
House of Women | Sarah | 1962 |
My Three Sons | Nurse #3 | 1960 |
The Untouchables | June | 1959 |
Have Gun - Will Travel | Ada - Saloon Gal | 1957 |
The Magical World of Disney | (archive footage) | 1954 |
Death Valley Days | Jenny Prentiss | 1952 |